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watercolour

Add Or 4673

manuscript, ink on paper

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Title

A Taujik in the Summer Dress of Caubul.

Date

1810 to 1815

Measurement

height 20.2 centimetres, width 11.7 centimetres

Language / script

English (lang.)

Subject

Afghanistan dress

Description

Scope and content : Watercolour, inscribed in ink above painting, 'A Taujik in the Summer Dress of Caubul' and below, 'Plate IV to face page 721' and in pencil on album page 'by native artist.'This is the original watercolour for plate IV, facing p. 434, in Mountstuart Elphinstone, Account of the Kingdom of Caubul (London, 1815).

Institution

British Library

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